| 1 | U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to arrive in Nigeria Sunday to commemorate the Boko Haram bombing of his organization's headquarters and focus new attention on 219 schoolgirls held by the extremists. |
| 2 | Ban is to meet with Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, amid plans to launch a long-delayed regional offensive against Nigeria's Islamic insurgents. |
| 3 | A U.N. statement says the leaders will discuss ways to counter violent extremism as well as human rights and climate change. |
| 4 | Ban also will meet the Bring Back Our Girls group which demands government action to free 219 abducted schoolgirls held now for nearly 500 days. |
| 5 | He will lay a wreath to mark the anniversary of the Aug. 26, 2011 suicide car bombing that killed 21 people at the U.N. Nigeria headquarters in Abuja. |